Internal Wrangler by Clinic

Internal Wrangler, Clinic's debut album, came out on Domino on 1 May 2000, after a string of self-financed singles got the Liverpool band signed, with Gareth Jones producing. They'd started out in Crosby in 1993 as Pure Morning, and by now were the band who played in surgical masks and scrubs.

The music is just as odd and just as much fun: Ade Blackburn's strangled vocals and wheezing melodica, Jonathan Hartley's guitar, keys and clarinet, and Brian Campbell and Carl Turney locking into tight, twitchy psych grooves. "DJ Shangri-La" mangles Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on a wildly overdriven organ, and "The Return of Evil Bill" picks up the story of the earlier "Evil Bill". Blackburn's superstition left the 13th slot empty, so four seconds of silence sit before the closer, "Goodnight Georgie". "The Second Line", which borrows from Liquid Liquid's "Cavern", landed in a Levi's TV ad late in 2000 and was reissued on the back of it.

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